The only way Aaron Boone’s tenure as skipper could be any more uncomfortable than it’s been the last few years is to add “lame duck” to the list of adjectives used to describe him by his detractors…
It was the late Dale Earnhardt who popularized the term that “second place is the first loser,” and there’s a lot of folks in our midst who have been feeling that for the past 10 days or so.
So it’s not just a product of the Greatest Generation doing Great Generation things. Civility has been practiced at ballparks, and often. And even recently.
What Yankees-Dodgers has given us across the years, across the decades, is several volumes of scrapbooks that keep a priceless array of unforgettable snapshots.
The Knicks believed that at the least, they’d made inroads on closing the gap with the Celtics. And they still might. But for now, after one game, a game in which they wanted to see where they meas…